noun

It will be designed to protect its amenities and preserve its open nature as a public common.

The council is responsible for maintaining more than 100 parks, open spaces, commons and woodlands which attract around five million visitors a year.

This statement of aims, if adopted, will greatly enhance the appeal of the commons for the public, while at the same time protecting and expanding the flora and fauna that inhabit these public open spaces.

common property

Last, this budget would be allocated amongst the world's nations on the basis of their populations - in recognition of the atmosphere being the common property of all humankind, to which every person has an equal right.

Shorelines, beaches, river bottoms, and navigable water - whether in the sea or flowing to it - were the common property of the nation's citizens.

It remains part of the atmosphere, and falls partly into areas of common property, and partly into areas of national sovereignty.

As the Times long ago put it, this duty is to obtain the earliest and most correct intelligence of the time, and instantly, by disclosing it, to make it the common property of the nation. comment is free, facts are sacred.

The intellectual creations of individual nations become common property.

Countries should create domestic laws that protect indigenous knowledge as the common property of the people, and as a national heritage.